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In learning how to build muscle, people are often diverted by assertions unfounded, fashion workouts and diets. You will notice that the title of this article is how to build muscle mass fast – this does not mean that mad in a week or anything like that muscles can build. What you can do however is to maximize its potential for muscle growth in a natural way. This common sense guide therefore represents the fastest way to build muscle. Source: Sam Mikulak. In this article, I am going to summarize all the fundamental points of muscle building.

It’s a good refresher for those who are already on the road, and a great place to start for beginner bodybuilders (at the end of the article is a definition of the terms for any beginner among you). How to build muscle 101 (1) lifting weights there is no doubt about it. Bodybuilding surpasses everything else to build muscle. Weight body calisthenics exercises (), the gym, cardiovascular work, you can build a little muscle for beginners but a little then stops. Why? Because you cannot add ever greater resistance to these other forms of exercise. (2) force your body to adapt! Continuing with point one, your muscles have no reason to grow if they are not placed under ever increasing demand. What this means is that weight that can be lifted in a given year should increase over time. Any gain = no growth.

This is the concept of progressive overload. (3) Train for hypertrophy. Hypertrophy means muscle growth. You want to focus specifically on this, instead of strength training that has its focus mainly on earnings from strength with the construction of muscle as a happy side effect. Strength training generally means a range of low repetitions and training composite only. While the compound exercises are vital for a good exercise session, no one is building biceps bulky with military presses and squats.